Hurricane MkI, Ilmavoimat HC-460

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

I have been hanging off far too long to build this kit and now I have the perfect reason.

 

It will be finnished in Finnish Air Force markings. Some quick reading tells me they had a lot of spare parts issues with  these aircraft and not many sorties were carried out later in the war.

 

It incudes some resin for the cockpit and wheel wells. I couple of schemes included but I think I will go the late war one.

[Max Headroom]

Front and centre!

 

Popcorn ready

 

Trevor

[Wings unlevel]

A Finnish machine is a fine choice, Ray.

 

FYI in the Hurricane reference thread there’s a link to a walk around of a Finnish Air Force Hurricane in a museum still in its original scheme. 
 

I’m looking forward to seeing this one, Ray, and welcome to the build. 👍

 

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

Thanks Gerard I'll check it out.

 

I do have my own reference handy as well

 

 

I have started assembly, the resin parts have needed some work particularly making the wheel well fit in the wing,

 

Cockpit in

 

Bit of a gap

 

Fixed

 

Time for some paint so I can glue the fuselage together

 

[Rabbit Leader]

Nice choice Ray and your progress so far looks great. Should you need any decals let me know, I’ve got a couple of Finnish examples from a fairly recent Xtradecals sheet going spare. Cheers and all the best.. Dave 

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

1 hour ago, Rabbit Leader said:

Nice choice Ray and your progress so far looks great. Should you need any decals let me know, I’ve got a couple of Finnish examples from a fairly recent Xtradecals sheet going spare. Cheers and all the best.. Dave 

 

Thanks Dave, The sheet I have will work fine.

 

I might even bring my Airfix kit into the fold and do another scheme from this kit's sheet. I have plenty of spare 'cockades' to be able to do the second build as I just need the serials from this one.

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

Interior painted, not much will bee seen so I am not that fussed with it. Instructions had the whole interior green. I checked out some of the other builds here to get a more definitive colour scheme.

 

 

Fuselage together and wings on, seems I took too mush off sorting out the fitment of the wing so some card was needed to fill the gaps.

[Wings unlevel]

That’s some great, rapid progress, Ray. The work wrangling the resin into place has certainly paid dividends. 

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

I have been pottering along with my Hurricane.

 

All was going well, I added some resin underneath

 

Then the carpet monster struck and I lost none of the gear parts, so I decided to break out my Airfix Hurricane and borrow the gear up parts

 

Which means I need to make a stand for it now

[Rabbit Leader]

Nice recovery and inflight pose there Ray, looking really good.

Also just asking, how do you find the SMS thin cement? Any different, same or better than Tamiya's Extra Tin? 

Cheers... Dave 

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

39 minutes ago, Rabbit Leader said:

Nice recovery and inflight pose there Ray, looking really good.

Also just asking, how do you find the SMS thin cement? Any different, same or better than Tamiya's Extra Tin? 

Cheers... Dave 

Dave,

 

I think the SMS cement is about the same as Tamiya's, I use it more now as it is easier to find than the Tamiya stuff in these parts. Scott is always at the shows I go to so I pick some up direct from him.

[Wings unlevel]

4 hours ago, Romeo Alpha Yankee said:

Which means I need to make a stand for it now

Love it! This will look terrific modelled in flight. Hope the clothesline peg survives as the stand base. 😂

[stevehnz]

Coming along nicely Ray. I built one of these later last year, the U/C bay was the only real hassle I had, things were getting pretty thin by the time I got it to fit, other than that, it was a build I enjoyed & was happy with the result.

Steve.

[modelling minion]

Very nice work Ray and I am very pleased to see a Finnish Hurricane being built in the later scheme, one of my favourites. 

[Nick McV]

Just discovered this, I didn't realise I wasn't the only Flying Finn in this GB! Pulling up a chair and buying popcorn! And she's looking great!

 

Cheers

 

Nick

 

[AaCee26]

This is meeting with an old friend 😀 Sword plastic. A kit I built when it was a new one. Both landing gear and cockpit side walls needed a lot of thinning as well as fuselage sides. Fin sides were quite poor located needing moving ribs on the another side higher...

 

Anyway, it looks good when built, nice surface detailling and it has metal panels on wing after the mg hatches. I didn't see any reason to replace it with the Airfix Mk I.

 

Cheers,

 

AaCee

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

Well, this one is stalled.

 

I am out of the correct green paint, the nearest hobby shop is 50 mins away and I am off for a week away to enjoy some warmth.

 

So I will get back to this on my return.

[Wings unlevel]

Safe travels Ray